FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES | Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival

PREMIERE OF LATEST LEGACY RESTORATION! A part of the Legacy Project 10th Anniversary Series. This contribution to the Japanese New Wave is most often cited as a key influence on Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE yet is equally significant for its unprecedented, forthright portrayal of transgender women in the 1960s Tokyo underground. Toshio Matsumoto’s daring debut feature alternates documentary-style interviews with self-described queens and an ecstatic, avant-garde interpretation of “Oedipus Rex.” Preceded by the World Premiere of a Legacy Project–restored short, BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN, which provides an illuminating glimpse into the life of an African American transgender woman in 1960s Los Angeles. Dir. Toshio Matsumoto | 1969, Japan, Japanese with English subtitles, 107 min.